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  1. Title: Sectional map of Koochiching County, Minnesota, 1912

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:120,000 (W 94°27'--W 93°03'/N 48°45'--N 47°49'). 86 x 92 centimeters Scale approximately 1:120,000 Minnesota County Maps, Plat Books, and Atlases

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  2. Title: Archaeological Map, Carthage, Tunisia, ca. 1895 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Carte archeologique et topographique des ruines de Carthage : dressee d'apres les releves de M. l'adjoint du genie Bordy, avec le concours de MM. le R. P. Delattre, ... le general Dolot,... P. Gauckler. It was published by Service geographique de l'armee, ca. 1895. Scale 1:5,000. Covers Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia. Map in French.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM Zone 32N, meters, WGS 1984) projected coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as drainage, cities and towns, villages, roads, railroads and stations, selected buildings and built-up areas, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown by contours and hachures. Overprinted to show archaeological sites.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

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  3. Title: Zaliv Lavrentiya, Russia, 1855 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: St. Lawrence Bay showing Lutke's Harbor, by the U.S. Ship Vincennes, Lieutenant John Rodgers ; produced by E.R. Knorr, draughtsman ; sketches by Wm. Brenton Boggs, purser U.S.N. ; engr. by Selmar Siebert ; reduced for engraving by Louis Waldecker. It was published by U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office in 1855. Scale [ca. 1:200,000]. Covers Zaliv Lavrentiya, Russia. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the 'Mercator' projection. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as drainage, human settlements, shoreline features, bays, harbors, inlets, points, shoals, anchorage points and bottom types, and more. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Depths shown by soundings. Includes note on Lutke's Harbor and 2 inset profile views. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection and the Harvard University Library as part of the Open Collections Program at Harvard University project: Organizing Our World: Sponsored Exploration and Scientific Discovery in the Modern Age. Maps selected for the project correspond to various expeditions and represent a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and purposes.

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  4. Title: Bering Sea and Arctic Ocean Region, 1882 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Behring's Sea and Arctic Ocean : from surveys of the U.S. North Pacific Surveying Expedition in 1855, Commander John Rodgers U.S.N. commanding and from Russian and English authorities, J.C.P. de Kraft, commodore U.S.N. Hydrographer to the Bureau of Navigation ; compiled by E.R. Knorr ; drawn by Louis Waldecker. Corr. & additions to Jan. 1882. It was published by U.S. Navy, Hydrographic Office in 1882. Scale [ca. 1:4,400,000]. Covers the Bering Sea and Arctic Ocean region. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to a non-standard 'Mercator' projection with the central meridian at 180 degrees west. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. Note: The central meridian of this map is not the same as the Prime Meridian and may wrap the International Date Line or overlap itself when displayed in GIS software. This map shows features such as drainage, cities and other human settlements, territorial boundaries, expedition routes, shoreline features, bays, harbors, islands, rocks, and more. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Depths shown by soundings. Includes drawing of Wrangel Island 'as seen from Bark Nile of New London ... ; 15 to 18 miles distant'. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection and the Harvard University Library as part of the Open Collections Program at Harvard University project: Organizing Our World: Sponsored Exploration and Scientific Discovery in the Modern Age. Maps selected for the project correspond to various expeditions and represent a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and purposes.

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  5. Title: Plan de la ville de Marseille : 1919

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    Summary: Originally 1 sheet. 75 x 116 centimeters Scale 1:5,000 City Maps

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  6. Title: Map or Plan of that Part of the Borough of the Bronx, City of New York, Lying Easterly of the Bronx River : compiled from surveys made under the direction of the Commissioner of Street Improvements of the 23 & 24 wards, and the Board of Public Improvements, 1902

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    Summary: This is a scanned version of the 1902 paper map entitled: Map or Plan of that Part of the Borough of the Bronx, City of New York, Lying Easterly of the Bronx River : compiled from surveys made under the direction of the Commissioner of Street Improvements of the 23 & 24 wards, and the Board of Public Improvements. All 6 sheets of the map were scanned at 300 dots per inch and are in the TIFF format.

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  7. Title: Carte du nord de la Syrie

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Includes ancient and medieval names for some locations. "Dressée d'après les travaux de MMrs. E.G. Rey, Vignes, de Vogué, de Torcy et Renault, G. Marmier, Kiepert, Brzozowski, Mansell, Chesney, Favre et Mandrot, Ely Smith, Praeschel, Sachau, Germain."

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  8. Title: Carte de la Palestine et du Liban : comprenant en outre, les régions situées a l'Est de l'Anti-Liban, du Jourdain et de la Mer Morte

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. In upper margin: Guides Joanne.

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  9. Title: Baltimore and its neighborhood: an excursion map; compiled for the Johns Hopkins University; based upon the triangulation of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey and published maps of local surveys; edited by Albert L. Webster; drawn by Louis Nell.

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    Summary: Depths shown by soundings and isolines. "Contours in water one fathom apart." 1 map: col., mounted on cloth; 60 x 60 cm

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  10. Title: Environs de Jérusalem

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Above upper margin: Guides Joanne. Hachette & Cie. Paris.

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  11. Title: Carte de la Palestine et du Liban : comprenant en outre, les régions situées a l'Est de l'Anti-Liban, du Jourdain et de la Mer Morte

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures.

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  12. Title: Chapman's sectional map of the surveyed part of Minnesota

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:630,000. Cover title: Chapman's sectional map of Minnesota. Shows county boundaries as of 1867. Publisher's advertising on back cover. Hand colored. 82 x 72 centimeters 1:630,000 General Minnesota Maps

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  13. Title: Plan der Laendereien der Gloucester Landgut und Stadt Gesellschaft : einschliessend einem Plan von Egg Harbor City

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    Summary: Developer's plat of proposed city with numbered lots; relief shown pictorially. Insets: Birds eye view of Egg Harbor City, NJ. -- Wein- und Obstgarten-Plan an der Ludwigs Höhe -- [Location map showing Egg Harbor City on mid-Atlantic coast]. Text signed: Egg Harbor City, November 1866 ... Louis Bullinger, General-Agent.

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  14. Title: Rail road map of Wisconsin : 1862

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    Summary: Shows both completed and in progress railroads. Includes tables with populations of cities and counties. 82 X 76 centimeters Scale [1:633,600]. 1 inch = 10 miles General Map Collection

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  15. Title: Leipzig, Germany, 1870 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Plan von Leipzig, ge[zat]. gest von Ad. Eltz[ner]. It was published by Louis Rocca in [1870]. Scale [ca. 1:6,600]. Covers Leipzig, Germany. Map in German. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Deutsches Hauptdreiecksnetz (DHDN) 3-degree Gauss-Kruger Zone 4 coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as roads, railroads, drainage, built-up areas and selected buildings, parks, cemeteries, and more. Includes indexes. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from The Harvard Map Collection as part of the Imaging the Urban Environment project. Maps selected for this project represent major urban areas and cities of the world, at various time periods. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features at a large scale. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and purposes.

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  16. Title: Community areas of Chicago as adopted by Census Bureau, 1930, showing juvenile delinquency rates /map prepared by Louis B. Narowski under the direction of Louis Wirth and Nathan Bodin for the Social Science Research Committee, University of Chicago; rates furnished by Clifford R. Shaw, Henry D. McKay.

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    Summary: Total male juvenile court delinquency petitions, 1927-1933, per 100 males 10-16 years of age, 1930.; Scale [ca. 1:190,000]; Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

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  17. Title: Map of the North Division of the Protestant Episcopal Church Property and the Adjoining Properties of Aaron Burr, Mary Barclay, Anthony Lispenard and Others, 1882

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    Summary: This is a scanned version of the 1882 paper map entitled: Map of the North Division of the Protestant Episcopal Church Property and the Adjoining Properties of Aaron Burr, Mary Barclay, Anthony Lispenard and Others. The map was scanned at 300 dots per inch and is in the TIFF format.

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  18. Title: Nile River and Birkat Q?r?n Regions, Egypt, 1854 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Carte hydrographique de la Moyenne Egypte, ou sont indiques les travaux executes ou a executer, d'apres les ordres de Son Altesse Mehemet-Ali, Vice-Roi d'Egypte. Avec le projet de communication directe des deux mers au travers de l'Isthme, par M. Linant de Bellefonds ; gravee par Schwaerzle et Erhard. It was published by Depot de la Guerre in 1854. Scale 1:250,000. Covers a portion of the Nile River region near Birkat Q?r?n, Ban? Suwayf, Al Fayy?m, and Al Miny?. Map in French.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Egypt Red Belt projected coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as drainage, canals, roads, cities and other human settlements, administrative boundaries, ruins and historical sites, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Includes also text and notes.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

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  19. Title: Nile River Delta Region, Egypt, 1855 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Carte hydrographique de la Basse Egypte et d'une partie de l'Isthme de Suez ou sont indiques les travaux executes ou a executer, d'apres les ordres de Son Altesse Mehemet-Ali, Vice-Roi d'Egypte. Avec le projet de communication directe des deux mers au travers de l'Isthme, par M. Linant de Bellefonds ; gravee par Schwaerzle. It was published by Depot General de la Guerre de France in 1855. Scale 1:250,000. Covers the Nile River Delta region, Egypt. Map in French. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Egypt Red Belt projected coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as drainage, canals, roads, railroads, cities and other human settlements, fortification, administrative boundaries, shoreline features, ruins and historical sites, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Includes also text, Profile de l'Isthme de Suez, and notes.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

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  20. Title: Nile River Region, Egypt, 1855 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Carte hydrographique de la partie septentrionale de la haute Egypt : ou sont indiques les travaux d'arrosage executes ou a executer d'apres les ordres de Son Altesse Mehemet-Ali, Vice-Roi d'Egypte, par M. Linant de Bellefonds ; gravee par Erhard. It was published by Depot de la Guerre in 1855. Scale 1:250,000. Covers a portion of the Nile River region near Asy?t and S?h?j, Egypt. Map in French.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Egypt Red Belt projected coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as drainage, canals, roads, railroads, cities and other human settlements, administrative boundaries, ruins and historical sites, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Includes also text and notes.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

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